
Rip Off Britain (2009)
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Rob Unsworth — Executive Producer
Episodes 196
Episode 10
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville travel the country tackling the rip-offs affecting consumers and investigating concerns both big and small.
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Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville travel the country tackling the rip-offs affecting consumers and investigating concerns both big and small.
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Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville travel the country tackling the rip-offs affecting consumers and investigating concerns both big and small.
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Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville travel the country tackling the rip-offs affecting consumers and investigating concerns both big and small.
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Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville travel the country tackling the rip-offs affecting consumers and investigating concerns both big and small.
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Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville travel the country tackling the rip-offs affecting consumers and investigating concerns both big and small.
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Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville battle on behalf of viewers who feel they've been ripped off or had a raw deal and try to get their problems resolved.
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Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville battle on behalf of viewers who feel they've been ripped off or had a raw deal and try to get their problems resolved.
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Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville battle on behalf of viewers who feel they've been ripped off or had a raw deal and try to get their problems resolved.
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Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville battle on behalf of viewers who feel they've been ripped off or had a raw deal and try to get their problems resolved.
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Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville battle on behalf of viewers who feel they've been ripped off or had a raw deal and try to get their problems resolved.
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Consumer show. The team investigates whether energy bills are not just too high, but also too complicated; plus a look at a home insulation that went disastrously wrong.
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Consumer show. The team investigates how mistakes made by energy companies can result in bills demanding tens of thousands of pounds. Plus, a boiler breakdown annoying customers.
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Consumer show. The team investigate cases where consumers have been forced to pay over the odds for goods or services, including a man charged 14,000 pounds to unblock a drain.
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Consumer show. The team investigate companies cashing in on a mis-selling scandal with a service you can get for free, and meet the young drivers priced off the road by insurance.
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Consumer show. The team tests whether Chip and PIN is as secure as the banks claim, meeting a woman who lost 16,000 pounds. Plus the pricing antics of Britain's best-loved comic.
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Consumer show. The team investigates what's being done to tackle the property investment schemes that have cost some their entire life savings. Plus, a home infested with rats.
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Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville tackle sharp practices affecting consumers. They ask why people in slow broadband areas pay the same as everyone else.
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Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville tackle sharp practices and investigate rip-offs. They meet residents hit with thousands of pounds' worth of parking tickets.
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Episode 10
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville meet a meet a football fan who never received his paid-for tickets. And the company taking advantage of people's dreams.
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Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate complaints about the banks. And more consumer issues are resolved at the Pop-Up Shop.
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Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville look into the companies dealing with mis-sold PPI payments, and reveal how a company was taped lying to prospective customers.
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Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate energy companies, meeting a man who was sent a £7,000 electricity bill for the year. Plus, how to lower bills.
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Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville help a woman forced to pay someone else's loan and explore problems with websites offering bargain deals.
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Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville meet a couple who were bitterly disappointed by a luxury holiday experience. Plus the true value of one store's gift vouchers.
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Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville visit a housing estate where a problem has dragged on for years, and look at the rising cost of parking at train stations.
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Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville ask if online comparison sites really do offer the best deals and investigate the price of being loyal to big companies.
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Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville expose rip-offs, raw deals and poor service.
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Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville reveal how confusion over road signs in a single spot has earned one council hundreds of thousands of pounds.
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Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville meet the woman who learned that she owes her bank more than six times the amount she thought she had borrowed.
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Consumer show. The team ask who will end up paying the price for the recent floods, and help a couple whose insurance company refuse to pay out following a fire.
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The team investigate complaints about the banks, meeting a woman angry no-one can tell her what has happened to the £25,000 she left in her account.
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Consumer show. The team meet the families who were promised cheaper electricity, but who instead have been hit with bills four times higher than they should have been.
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Consumer show. The team investigate the companies who have taken hundreds, or even thousands, of pounds from customers but provided absolutely nothing in return.
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Consumer show. The team want answers from a company taking hundreds of pounds for flight tickets they haven't supplied, and meet a woman who's ended up losing her identity.
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Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville meet the woman conned out of her bank details. Plus the companies taking advantage of an easy way to make payments.
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Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville test the claims of a cash-for-gold company - how much will they really pay out for unwanted jewellery?
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A look at the care home contracts that come with a costly sting in the tail, and how buying a second hand car led to one woman being woken in the middle of the night.
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The team meets a family who face losing their home because of a mistake that has meant for six years they have been pursued for somebody else's debt.
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The team take a look at the banks' approach to victims of fraud, and try to help viewers who have been stung get their money back. Plus an online shopping scam.
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Angela Rippon investigates why homeowners promised cheaper energy have instead been hit with sky-high bills, forcing them to choose between eating or keeping warm.
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The team investigates customer service, and puts to the test one of the biggest consumer bugbears of all: how long it takes for big companies to answer a call.
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Stories in this episode include a couple whose worldly goods have entirely disappeared after they paid a shipping company to transport them home.
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Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville look at why it is perfectly legal for a company that owes you money to shut down and reopen under a new name.
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Julia Somerville, Angela Rippon and Gloria Hunniford meet the people being pursued by one of the biggest names in the business for debts they never took out.
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The team meet people who have lost a lot of money thanks to someone else's mistake, including a woman who cannot retrieve cash transferred into the wrong account.
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Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville investigate why cold calling remains one of consumers' biggest bugbears, and reveal a cold calling scam.
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Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville investigate situations where viewers have ended up thousands of pounds out of pocket - in some cases thanks to their own bank.
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Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate problems viewers have had with insurance, including a look at the rising cost of pet insurance.
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The team investigate more situations where viewers have had a raw deal. Including a couple's travel insurance claim that was turned down for an astonishing reason.
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The team reveal how to become more online-savvy and avoid being stung by internet fraudsters or companies that are not what they seem.
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The team investigate situations where viewers claim they have been treated unfairly or fallen foul of rules they did not even know were in place.
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The team investigate cases where people end up paying over the odds - sometimes by thousands of pounds.
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The team investigate extraordinary stories to do with money, including the couple who lost hundreds of pounds thanks to simple errors with a bank transfer.
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The team meet viewers who handed over hundreds of pounds to people who seemed to be experts in their field but did not get quite what they expected.
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Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville investigate stories to do with health. Why are patients at GP surgeries having to call a premium rate number?
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Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon, and Julia Somerville expose disastrous problems with brand new properties, including a grand design that has gone terribly wrong.
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The team investigate mysterious flooding that is seriously damaging a home, and a church whose solar panels fail to generate a profit.
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The team explore unsound investment opportunities. An investor in an apparently star-studded blockbuster wonders whether the movie will ever actually be produced.
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Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville investigate why the terms and conditions we sign up to every day are so long-winded and complicated.
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The team meet viewers caught out by the small print - including a family whose holiday was almost grounded by a simple but very costly mistake.
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The team expose all-too-plausible scams that have cost viewers hundreds of thousands of pounds and share advice to help viewers avoid being stung the same way.
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The team reveal easy ways to avoid losing either money or personal details online, investigating the darkest corners of the web.
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The team talk to a man whose bank refused to believe he wasn't dead, in an error that ended up costing him hundreds of pounds.
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The team investigate situations where viewers have been left frustrated by the customer service they have received.
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A tragic event highlights a common mistake made with holiday cover, and the team open up a pet clinic after a rise in complaints about insurance.
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The team investigate houses under attack from plants and trees and what happened to one woman's family silver after she trusted an expert to sell it.
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The team investigate the spiralling costs of energy and heating and share advice on how to bring bills down without switching supplier.
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As the team investigate whether we always get value for money, there's an exclusive peek at the tough tests designed to identify which products are the best.
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The team investigate complaints about big-name brands, including a sofa store whose new furniture didn't please one woman in the way she'd expected.
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The team expose bogus celebrity endorsements that tempt you into handing over cash for something you may later regret.
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The team investigate why so many people have had problems trying to get faster broadband in their homes.
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The team examine a computer threat that could see your files held to ransom and made inaccessible unless you pay up.
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The team meet people who have all found ways to reduce what they previously paid on household bills.
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The team expose the secret sales techniques used to pressure more vulnerable customers into buying products they simply can't afford.
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The team meet viewers whose purchases have had an unwelcome sting, including homeowners desperate to know why their homes have flooded.
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The team investigate if the price-match promises from some of the country's biggest retailers could come with a catch.
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With fake job scams on the rise, the team unpicks how the fraudsters make their ads so plausible - thanks to actors posing as employers.
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Why residents desperate to get the condition of their roads up to scratch will only be able to do it by forking out thousands of pounds themselves.
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The team uncovers how the billing mistakes of one mobile phone giant have caused customers months of misery.
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The team investigates cases where viewers haven't had what they paid for, including a big name music concert that went wrong from the start.
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The team discovers how a business supposed to help people manage their debts left them owing more than they had in the first place.
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Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville learn why for many the dream of owning a new home has turned sour.
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Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville uncover the latest tricks used by scammers to get their hands on people's money.
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The team expose devastating problems that have left homeowners out of pocket, including the mysterious cracks which led to properties getting demolished.
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After claims that the black boxes supposed to bring down the cost of car insurance don't work the way people would hope, the team tests them out.
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Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville investigate big-name companies who have left viewers feeling let down.
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The team investigate cases where the reality of what viewers ended up with is very different from what they expected for their money.
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Julia Somerville, Angela Rippon and Gloria Hunniford investigate cases of elderly or vulnerable people who have felt pressured into parting with their money.
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Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville investigate the loopholes and gaps in the law catching many people out.
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Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville unravel mysterious scams designed to get hold of either cash or personal details.
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The team investigate whether staff at one of the biggest names on the high street are telling shoppers the entire truth about a product.
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Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville investigate whether finance deals used by people to buy a new car are all they are cracked up to be.
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Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate problems viewers have had with some of the biggest names in the country.
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Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate problems viewers have had with couriers and look at how businesses often let down people who are hard of hearing.
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Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate dodgy second-hand cars, pricey dating agencies and the state of rental properties neglected by landlords.
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Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate cases of identity theft and ask experts which of the big-name banks has the best online security.
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Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate alarming catches in terms and conditions, meaning your insurance may not cover you if your car is stolen.
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Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate a builder with a string of unhappy customers, and fundraisers whose money never reached the intended charity.
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Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville reveal some surprisingly simple ways to save money, taking a look at whether big-brand medicines are worth the cost.
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Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville expose the latest scams targeting people who can least afford to lose their cash.
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Julia Somerville, Gloria Hunniford and Angela Rippon investigate situations where viewers don't feel they have had what they paid for.
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Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville investigate big-name companies that viewers say have let them down.
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The team battle on behalf of viewers who feel they have had a raw deal, including the homeowners who say their new-build properties have fallen far short of expectations.
Read MoreEpisode 10
The Rip Off Britain team is ready to tackle the issues you feel affect you the most.
Read MoreEpisode 11
Today, some of the newest and nastiest scams, including the extraordinary wave of car cannibalism, in which parts are stolen from people’s cars by masked thieves in broad daylight.
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Angela, Gloria and Julia look at the cutting edge technology designed to make our lives easier, but which, some viewers are telling us, has ended up making things harder.
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In the wake of devastating street flooding, are the water companies doing enough to cut down on leaks?
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Gloria Hunniford, Julia Somerville and Angela Rippon investigate the bold tactics some companies are accused of using to stop disgruntled customers complaining.
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Julia Somerville, Angela Rippon and Gloria Hunniford investigate how some companies will seemingly stop at nothing to get your business.
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How one woman discovered a man she barely knew had married her seriously ill mum, giving him the right to inherit her estate.
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How a mistake by the financial regulator opened the door to fraudsters, and why isn’t the new banking code of conduct getting everyone back the money they’re owed due to online fraud?
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How scammers used the image of one of Britain’s most trusted TV stars to steal thousands of pounds from unsuspecting members of the public.
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The case of mistaken identity that left one woman fighting to prove she was telling the truth, and the man who reported a burglary at his home but ended up on trial himself.
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The team investigate whether some companies using new data protection rules as an excuse to keep vital information from you.
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